Hi. Haven't been using LAN for a while. Now on netbook with Lucid Puppy 5.2.8, trying to connect to Win98 server.

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rcrsn51 wrote:

If you are logging into a basic Windows XP share, you can leave the Username, Password and Options fields empty.

Yes, it saw a shared directory on a winXP computer, thanks.

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Note to firewall users: YASSM needs help finding a share if the client machine is running the Puppy firewall. Add your LAN's network prefix to the server name. For example, acer?192.168.2.0. Note that the last digit is a zero and the question mark character is used as a separator.
Or just try using the full IP address as the server name.

Please excuse, I don't understand that about "LAN's network prefix" ; I tried turning off the firewall on this computer.

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Note to Win9X owners: When connecting to a Win9X machine, you must enter the share and server names in UPPER case. And you must include the option servern=SERVER_NAME.

@sheldonisaac: It's nice to hear again from the original YASSM tester! Your Win98 server box is still running?

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I don't understand that about "LAN's network prefix" ; I tried turning off the firewall on this computer.

Programs like Pnethood and YASSM need to convert a server's name into its IP address in order to mount its shares. They do it by scanning the network for a server with the correct name and returning the matching IP.

But in some cases, the presence of a firewall can interfere with this procedure. The easiest solution is to turn off the firewall. But if you don't want to do that, YASSM has an alternative.

You can specify the server name as "server?aaa.bbb.ccc.0". Then YASSM will use a different, slower procedure to find the IP address.

You can also use this technique if your network is divided into segments using several routers. By using the server?subnet description, YASSM has a better chance of finding shares on a remote server.

I have Samba-TNG installed.. Now I want the GUI frontend that works best with it.

I already have an older version of your samba-tng pet,
and noticed the latest pet does not have the '/usr/local/samba/client' folder, but I do! This folder has samba-login in it, and samba-select ...

I also downloaded your YASSM pet, and looked at that...
Does it work with samba-tng? I plan to simply whack YASSM into my pup, and hope it works with the actual samba-tng stuff already in there from samba-tng-rcrsn-0.5-rc1.pet ...._________________Akita Linux, VLC-GTK, Pup Search, Pup File Search

The original samba-TNG packages also contained the client programs like samba-login. They were stored in the folder /usr/local/samba/client. But that was causing some confusion over server versus client functionality. So I split the client apps into their own package named YASSM. YASSM 2.4.6 now uses the folder /usr/local/yassm.

Just to be clear, YASSM is not a GUI front-end for samba-TNG. YASSM is an alternative to Pnethood or lameSMBxplorer. But it definitely works as a tool for mounting samba-TNG shares.

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I plan to simply whack YASSM into my pup, and hope it works with the actual samba-tng stuff already in there from samba-tng-rcrsn-0.5-rc1.pet

No. You want to install it in other Puppies so they can access the TNG shares or Windows shares, etc.

I split the client apps into their own package named YASSM. YASSM 2.4.6 now uses the folder /usr/local/yassm.

Ok cool.

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Just to be clear, YASSM is not a GUI front-end for samba-TNG. YASSM is an alternative to Pnethood or lameSMBxplorer. But it definitely works as a tool for mounting samba-TNG shares.

OK, just to confirm I am indeed thick... So, let see if this is correct:

1. YASSM is a client, for connecting to ('mounting') samba AND samba-tng shares on OTHER PCs ...
2. And samba-tng-rcrsn-0.5-rc1 is purely for setting up a server, creating a 'share' that others can 'mount'...

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